helmet: [15] A helmet is literally a ‘little protective hat’. The word was borrowed from Old French helmet, a diminutive form of helme ‘helmet’. This in turn was acquired by Old French from Germanic *khelmaz (source of English helm [OE]), which goes back ultimately to Indo-European *kel- ‘hide, cover’ (source of a wide range of English words, including apocalypse, cell, cellar, conceal, hall, hell, and occult). => hell, helm
helmet (n.)
mid-15c., perhaps a diminutive of Old English helm "protection, covering; crown, helmet" (see helm (n.2)). But Barnhart says from Middle French helmet (Modern French heaume), diminutive of helme "helmet," from the same Germanic source as helm (n.2). "Middle English Dictionary" points to both without making a choice. "Old English helm never became an active term in the standard vocabulary of English." [Barnhart]
双语例句
1. A man in a crash helmet was mounting a motorbike.
一位戴头盔的男子正跨上摩托车。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He pulled on a battered old crash helmet with a scratched visor.
他戴上了一顶破旧的防护头盔，上面的面罩已有划痕。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Miners wore a helmet as a guard against falling rocks.
矿工头戴钢盔,防护落下的岩石.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. He donned work clothes and a wicker helmet.
他穿上工作服,戴上柳条帽.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
5. Through the basement window I saw him strap on his pink cycling helmet.